PRC -- Stephen Lendman Asks Legitimate Questions About French Attacks

It’s too soon to know for sure. Given French
complicity with ongoing US state terror throughout the Middle East, North
Africa and elsewhere, odds strongly favor the latter.

Multiple likely well-planned Friday night attacks in
Paris had a disturbing aroma to them – including France’s knee-jerk police
state reaction. More on this below. Here’s what happened.

At least seven apparently well-coordinated attacks
occurred, gunmen with automatic weapons and suicide belts killing over 150
victims. Many others were injured. Stade de France stadium was struck during a
football (soccer) match between France and Germany.

So was the Bataclan theater during a concert,
restaurants full of patrons, a cinema, and pedestrians on Bichat Street, the
Avenue de la Republique and Boulevard Beaumarchais.

Reports indicated other Paris locations were attacked,
including the Forum des Halles shopping area attracting an estimated 150,000
daily visitors.

The predictable aftermath so far includes French
President François Hollande declaring a state of emergency – effectively
suspending constitutional rights under martial law.

“Two decisions will be taken,” Hollande announced.
“The state of emergency will be decreed, which means several places will be
closed off, and traffic will be limited in certain areas.”

“The state of emergency will apply across the country.
The second decision I have taken is to close the borders, so that the people
who have committed these crimes can be apprehended.”

“We know where this attack came from. We must show
compassion and solidarity, but we must also show we are united. There is much
to fear, but we must face these fears as a nation that knows how to muster its
forces and will confront the terrorists.”

Heavily armed French soldiers were deployed around key
Parisian locations. Five metro lines were shut. Orly airport flights were
suspended. All city schools and universities were closed.

De facto martial law legitimizes repressive police
state powers. Constitutional protections are suspended. Following the April
2013 Boston Marathon bombing, a no-fly zone was ordered over a 3.5 mile radius
of the incident.

Post-9/11, Bush claimed unconstitutional “unitary
executive” authority to govern extrajudicially in the name of national
security.

He declared (phony) war on terror and hot war on
Afghanistan. Iraq, Libya, Syria, Donbass and Yemen followed. Police state laws
were enacted – still in force. Repressive National Security and Homeland
Security Presidential Directives were announced.

Hollande cancelled his G-20 summit participation,
scheduled for November 15 and 16 in Turkey. It’s unclear if Obama will attend.
The world’s leading perpetrator of state terrorism offered France “full
support,” duplicitously saying America shares the bonds of “liberte, egalite
and fraternite.”

US post-9/11 knee-jerk reaction blamed bin Laden and
Al Qaeda for the attack – the mother of all Big Lies, we now know.

ISIS was automatically blamed for the Paris attacks –
despite no evidence so far establishing responsibility. Official statements,
actions and media hype created an atmosphere of fear, a likely public
willingness to sacrifice freedom for so-called security, a rationale for harsh
measures to try stemming the human refugee flood caused by US-led imperial
wars, and a desire for revenge.

Perhaps the stage is set for escalated Western wars OF
terror instead of unity to battle the scourge of ISIS and likeminded groups.
Were Friday attacks state-sponsored terrorism – a carefully staged false flag
for whatever may follow?

Herman Goering once explained how easy it is to get
people to go along with “the bidding of the leaders…All you have to do is tell
them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country,” he said.

Friday Paris attacks were either blowback for Western
wars on Islam or a state-sponsored false flag. Odds strongly favor the latter.
Sordid Western history of false flags for subsequent planned events suggests
it.

On September 20, 2001, George Bush lied to Congress
and the public, claiming America was attacked because we are “a beacon of
freedom.” The attackers were “evil. This is civilization’s fight.” He
suppressed Washington’s direct responsibility for what happened, perhaps
complicit with Israel’s Mossad.

The aftermath of 9/11 is clear – endless US-led
imperial wars, a phony Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), an assault on
fundamental human and civil rights, police state harshness replacing them, an
America unfit to live in.

Will France and other European countries become more
belligerent and repressive than already in response to Friday’s incident?

Were Washington and perhaps Israel’s dirty hands
involved in what happened? Daesh (ISIS/ISIL/IS) is such an easy target to
blame. It’s simple getting most people to believe it unquestionably.

The Big Lie repeated often enough works the same way
every time. ISIS is the new “Enemy Number One.” Its creation by Washington and
use as proxy foot soldiers is suppressed.

Was Friday’s Paris incident prelude to something
similar planned for New York, Washington, and/or other US cities?

Unsurprisingly, Western media ignored what has all the
earmarks of a well-planned false flag –Washington perhaps complicit with
France.

Maybe Israel was involved to justify its reign of
terror on Palestine. The usual suspects were blamed (ISIS terrorists, of
course) before the dust settled – the clearest indication of a Big Lie.

A joint FBI/Department of Homeland Security statement
said “(w)e will not hesitate to adjust our security posture, as appropriate, to
protect the American people.” Expect harsher police repression ahead.

The New York Times headlined “Hollande Blames ISIS for
‘Act of War’ on Paris.” It cited “(n)ews agencies quot(ing) (Paris police
chief) Michel Cadot saying “all the assailants involved in shootings and
bombings were believed to be dead.” Dead men tell no tales!

Other Times articles and commentaries hyped terrorism
in Paris, fingers pointing one way, ignoring the most likely explanation for
what happened. Other Western media reported the same way.

“It is horror,” he said, declaring a nationwide state
of emergency, ask(ing) for military reinforcements,” and closing France’s
borders, blocking entry for refugees fleeing war zones – ones France bears responsibility
for with America and other rogue partners.

“We are going to lead a war which will be pitiless,”
Hollande blustered.

Wall Street Journal: “Hollande Blames ISIS for Paris
Attacks.”

The latest from Reuters headlined “Islamic State
claims responsibility.” It cited an unverified “official statement” saying “its
fighters strapped with suicide bombing belts and carrying machine guns carried
out the attacks in various locations in the heart of the capital which were
carefully studied” – without further elaboration.

Obama reacted as expected, ignoring his high crimes
against peace in numerous US-instigated war theaters, guilty of horrific state
terrorism – hyping “an attack on all humanity and the universal values that we
share…The American people draw strength from the French people’s commitment to
life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.”

“We are reminded in this time of tragedy that the
bonds of liberte and egalite and fraternite are not only values that the French
people care so deeply about, but they are values that we share.”

He sent “condolences on behalf of the Israeli people
to the families of the victims” while collectively punishing an entire
Palestinian population viciously – waging war without mercy against defenseless
civilians.

A separate article called what happened Friday a
likely well-planned false flag. Automatically blaming it on ISIS before the
dust settled is the clearest indication so far.

Ignore headlined hype. What follows matters most –
likely greater US-led war OF terror than already ongoing, perhaps including
loss of remaining freedoms.

Does full-blown tyranny loom in the name of defending
national security? Expect nothing positive in the aftermath of Friday’s
attacks.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at
lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

His new book as editor and contributor is titled
“Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.”

http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html

Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.

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